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+title: Prevent Apache from displaying text files within a web browser
+date: 2012-05-23
+excerpt: How to prevent Apache from displaying the contents of files like CHANGELOG.txt.
+tags:
+    - apache
+    - code
+    - drupal
+---
+
+When you download [Drupal](http://drupal.org/project/drupal), there are several
+text files that are placed in the root of your installation. You don't want or
+need these to be visible to anyone attempting to view them in a browser -
+especially CHANGELOG.txt as that includes the exact version of Drupal you are
+running and could therefore have security implications.
+
+Rather than delete these files or change the file permissions manually for each
+file, I can add the following lines into my VirtualHost configuration.
+
+```
+<Files ~ "\.txt$">
+    Order deny,allow
+    Deny from all
+</Files>
+```
+
+This prevents any files with a .txt extension from being accessed and rendered
+in a web browser.